It’s often difficult to understand why there is a consensus about the transcendence and urgency of their ideas and yet an absence of application across the world. Over the past year, I've pored through endless amounts of data and evidence on what makes people truly happy and flourish. And I recently founded a teaching and media company that aims to spread happiness in Africa. Where people insisted on retributive justice, Mandela doubled down on restorative justice, and where others prized pride and attack, King spoke often of love and patience. We are a culture very fond of quoting, with approval, King, when he says, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

Source: Forbes May 10, 2018 12:00 UTC